Eng Jone (EJ) Ng

Sourcing responsibility in Electronics commodity within the Asia region.

- To purchase and source for raw material especially Stamping parts, Electronic Module Assembly and Seals. - Identify, select and qualify new sources. - Define and execute cost reduction opportunities within the controlled region. - Define and execute on contracts, including: negotiations, pricing, capacity, tooling, etc. for assigned suppliers. - Report on monthly cost reduction and purchase price variance results to the commodity procurement team leaders and site procurement manager. - Assist the operations teams in resolution of supplier related problems. - Support others manufacturing site to obtain the pricing for the requested part. - Sourcing and identify for the potential suppliers for the new program development within the controlled region. Leading the technical review between designer, SQE and suppliers for the new product development. Manage and finalize the commercial discussion with suppliers and contract agreement if needed. Coordinate the supplier overall project timeline in order to meet the master overall timeline with our customers targeted SOP date. - Coordinate and execute on supplier disengagements as needed. Achievement We do purchase a part called contact spring which is plated in gold. There is a design change idea to plate the contact spring by silver. This idea has been triggered to the design team to come out the product validation testing and the result turn good and also triggered our product management team to get the customer approval on this design change and it has been successfully done. The cost reduction of this change is close to $4.0 million US dollars.

- To purchase and source for raw material especially mechanical engineering parts. - Major discipline purchase for mechanical engineering parts for our machine building projects, minor for consumable items. - To prepare RFQs to the approved vendors and follow up the quotation from them. - Negotiating the price, minimum order quantity and shipping term with the vendors in order to meet the cost saving objectives. - Issuing the purchase order to the vendors. - Keep an eye the delivery goods from vendors and make sure that meet the planned production schedule date. - Follow up and solve the problem with vendors if there is any rejected part from them in term of quality. - As an International Procurement Centre for all the subsidiaries plants in this company. We will buy the goods for our subsidiaries plants when it’s cheaper and available in Asia region. - Coordinating the received goods from vendor until export to our subsidiaries plants. In between, it has to make sure the received goods are IQC done. Then, all the goods have to send to the shipping department and it has to prepare the shipping document for shipping colleagues to export it out. Achievement I am handling the indirect purchase for this company. All the parts that we buy for the company is for machine usage like spare parts (sheet metal or CNC parts), fitting, pump, etc. All our machine was designed by our headquarter in Germany, we are buying the machine from Germany all the while and all the spare parts are done by supplier in Germany/Europe country. I had done the localization project for most of the spare parts in South East Asia and the machine was assembled in Malaysia and finally the machine was exported to China for the business market in mainland China. These spare parts localization project had bring few million dollars of cost reduction.

- Issued purchase order to the vendors. - Keep an eye to the delivery goods from vendors and make sure that meet the production schedule date. - Creating the forecast to the vendors to make sure that they have a buffer stock for us to avoid production line stop. - Inventory control to make sure that no much excess stock.